BindView Advances Password Management to Meet Global Regulatory Requirements

Expanding password management capabilities to meet IT security compliance requirements, BindView Corp. (Nasdaq:BVEW) announced today the availability of Password Self Service 8.00. The newly enhanced solution provides an integral element for global identity management strategies, helping enterprises balance password security and high-level productivity. Organizations are able to reduce help desk costs by providing 24x7 Web-enabled password reset requests across multiple operating systems, databases and applications.

Regulatory mandates require stringent IT controls, including strong password policy management. BindView Password Self Service combines rigorous policy controls and profile enforcement, helping to eliminate password manipulation, so that access privileges are accurately controlled and consistently enforced for demonstrating due care.

'Password management is a simple detail that can turn into a huge IT nightmare if not managed properly,' said Fairmont Hotel's IT Manager Rob Piercey. 'BindView's automated password management capabilities have significantly decreased the number of password-related calls to our help desk, with a clear cost-management benefit.'

'Compliance mandates require that IT controls include strong password policies, and many organizations are struggling with how to support the significant expense associated with meeting these requirements,' said BindView Senior Vice President Shekar Ayyar. 'BindView Password Self Service dramatically lowers these costs and increases help-desk productivity, at the same time providing audit and policy control capabilities to demonstrate due care.'

BindView's extensible architecture supports out-of-the-box integration with any application or directory, making it ideally suited for enterprises that require broad multi-platform support for synchronizing password resets. Password Self Service deploys easily and quickly, typically in only a few hours. With the purchase of BindView Password Self Service, organizations gain immediate access to password management capabilities for Active Directory(R), Windows(R) NT(R), Novell eDirectory(R), Microsoft(R) SQL Server, and multiple UNIX(R) flavors including AIX(R), SUN iPlanet(TM), HP(R) , SUSE Linux and Red Hat Linux.

Password Self Service 8.00 At-a-Glance
Identity Verification: Thwarts malicious impersonation attempts by allowing IT staff to securely verify identities
Profile Enforcement: Helps IT organizations verify that employees are subscribing and configuring accounts with BindView Password Self Service Profile Configuration and prompts users to configure profiles at log-in
Multi-language Support: Supports multiple languages for global organizations including French, German, Spanish and Portuguese

Availability
Password Self Service 8.00 is available immediately. For more information, please visit: www.bindview.com/Products/DirAdminMig/PasswordManagement/.

About BindView
BindView Corporation is a leading provider of proactive IT Security Compliance software worldwide. BindView solutions enable customers to centralize and automate Compliance Monitoring, Vulnerability Management, Identity Administration and Configuration Management operations across the enterprise. By following established regulatory guidelines, audit frameworks, technical standards and industry best practices, BindView solutions enable customers to implement a policy-based approach toward safeguarding their IT environments from internal and external threats and vulnerabilities. The result is improved security and improved compliance auditing across users, systems, applications, and databases based on Microsoft, UNIX, LINUX and Novell operating systems. With BindView insight at work(TM), customers benefit from reduced risk and improved operational efficiencies with a verifiable return on investment. More than 20 million licenses have shipped to 5,000 companies worldwide, spanning all major business segments and the public sector. Contact BindView via e-mail at info@bindview.com, on the web at http://www.bindview.com, and at 1-713-561-4000 or 1-800-749-8439.

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